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Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin
Oh, come on, man. Let's assume for the sake of discussion that the event at issue was in fact a videotaped press conference.* I, for one, wouldn't make that particular "mistake" with a thousand cameras pointing at me. Neither would you. The chances that a highly experienced media whore like Hughes simply committed a slip of the tongue here are infinitesimally remote.
Then again, it's possible that Hughes is every bit as Jesus-addled as President Bush. If that's the case, she likely wants the Constitution and the Pledge all melded together and one could reasonably call the statement in question a Freudian "mistake."
So yes, you're correct; there are more than two possibilities.
*The trancript describes the event as a "Briefing En Route to Ankara, Turkey." That description is perfectly consistent with an audiotaped sit-down on a plane.
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OK, I'm willing to go with that. It's reasoned, and not a knee-jerk response. I wish more political criticism here would look like yours immediately above, and not like your OP and the mutual back-slapping "aren't we superior?" bullshit responses that tended to follow it (not all of them were, and in particular I think Clutch Munny and lisarea gave thoughtful and funny responses).
I've mentioned it here before -- although it's been quite some time -- but I think too often the posters here are not aware of just how hostile an atmosphere we create here at FF to expressing ideas which might be dissenting from our own politically. This board is very skewed to the left. There's nothing wrong with that by itself, but the vitriol so many of us display towards anyone associated with the right, or even sometimes the center, is disproportionate, unwarranted, and not very critical. I don't like it one bit.
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